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Peter Abraham / THE JOURNAL NEWS:
Torre to manage Dodgers; Mattingly will be his bench coach — The Los Angeles Dodgers have decided to fire manager Grady Little and replace him with former Yankees manager Joe Torre, The Journal News has learned. — Torre, 67, could be named manager as soon as tomorrow, according to two sources close to the situation.
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ESPN.com:
Sources: Girardi agrees to manage Yankees — The Yankees have agreed to a contract with Joe Girardi to become the team's next manager and an official announcement could come as soon as Tuesday, sources told ESPN The Magazine's Buster Olney. — Girardi's contract is expected to be in the three-year, $6 million range.
Sports Illustrated:
Girardi picks Yankees over Dodgers — Turns down last-minute attempts from Dodgers — Joe Girardi, rebuffing last-minute attempts by the Dodgers to become their manager, has agreed to succeed Joe Torre as Yankees manager. — And, in a major twist, Torre may switch from the Yankees to the Dodgers.
Tyler Kepner / New York Times:
Dodgers Could Reunite Torre and Mattingly — Joe Torre and Don Mattingly parted ways with the Yankees this month, but they may stay together in a major league dugout next season. — Two major league officials said yesterday that the Los Angeles Dodgers planned to fire Grady Little …
NY Daily News:
Joe Girardi agrees to 3-year deal to manage Yankees — DAILY NEWS STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS — Joe Girardi has agreed to a three-year contract to manage the Yankees. — The agreement to take over as Joe Torre's replacement is worth an average salary of at least $2 million annually …
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Bill Plaschke / Los Angeles Times:
Hiring Torre's all right; treatment of Little's all wrong — Hiring Torre would be all right, but way they're treating Little is all wrong — The move makes sense. — But the machinations make me sick. — If the Dodgers have an opportunity to hire future Hall of Fame manager Joe Torre …
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Scott Miller / CBS SportsLine.com:
If you still like or support A-Rod, stop reading now — DENVER — Alex Rodriguez is a weasel. — Fantastic player. Great hitter. Fabulous, skilled, amazing, incredible hitter. GQ dresser. Nice eyes. — And a complete, colossal and utter weasel.
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Mike Lupica / NY Daily News:
Bid farewell to A-Rod, the gold-plated phony — More coverage: — Alex Rodriguez and his agent, Scott Boras, have become the kind of phonies that aspiring phonies now study in sports, somewhat the way scientists study lab rats. — Here was Boras the other night, getting his client A-Rod …
Troy E. Renck / Denver Post:
Holliday, others uncertain as business season begins — If only Matt Holliday could live in that snapshot. The night the Rockies clinched the National League Championship Series, he's wearing a smile and swimming goggles, his face splashed with champagne. — The Rockies were in the World Series.
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ESPN.com:
Schilling writes goodbye letters to Red Sox mates — BOSTON — Curt Schilling isn't going to make his teammates read his blog. He wrote some of them letters to say goodbye. — "I actually broke out a pen and paper the last couple days," Schilling said Tuesday in his weekly radio appearance …
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Mark Hale / New York Post:
A-ROD ON MENU AT MET MEETING — Exactly one month after their season stunningly collapsed, the Mets will hold organizational meetings today, and Alex Rodriguez surely will be one of the topics of discussion. — In addition to Rodriguez and what stance they should take with other free agents …
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MLB.com:
Hackman suspended — The Office of the Commissioner of Baseball announced today that free agent Minor League player Luther Hackman has received a 50-game suspension for testing positive for a performance-enhancing substance in violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.
Anthony McCarron / NY Daily News:
Joe Girardi managed to sink, swim with Marlins — More coverage: — There were 45 of so players sitting in the Marlins' spring-training clubhouse when Joe Girardi held his first meeting as a manager. Florida's payroll had been slashed, some of their best players traded away and some of the kids …
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